Former NFL safety Hamza Abdullah, who played seven years for the Broncos and Cardinals, unleashed a profane Twitter assault on the league Thursday morning for, as he put it early in his 15-minute-long outburst, “doing your former players the way you’re doing em.’’

Along the way, he directly accused the NFL and its treatment of former players during and after their careers of driving them to suicide — and him to thoughts of suicide.

“I’ve thought about that, and the only reason I won’t, is because I’m Muslim,’’ tweeted Abdullah, 30, who last played for Arizona in 2011 and who joined his younger brother Husain, also an NFL defensive back, on a pilgrimage to Mecca in 2012. The younger Abdullah played four years for Minnesota before their sabbatical, and now plays for Kansas City.

“Every time I go to sleep, I pray that Allah takes care of my family, just in case I don't wake up,’’ Hamza Abdullah wrote. “And quietly, I'm disappointed sometimes when I do wake up.”

His account, @HamzaAbdullah21, which has more than 10,000 followers, went viral almost immediately after he began his verbal assault on the NFL with this tweet: “(Expletive) you @NFL #NFL”. Several of the tweets that followed included some version of the same phrase, including a few directing it toward commissioner Roger Goodell.

“You would sell your ... soul for a dollar,’’ he tweeted.

He also said of the league, “You are the plantation and WE are the slaves!!!” He described the annual combine as “that slave trade” in which the league “strip(s) us of our manhood.’’

Abdullah included a photo of himself, as a Bronco, absorbing a collision between his head and the hip of a Chiefs player in a 2007 game. It was one of two games that season in which, he said, “I knocked myself out,’’ yet the NFL diagnosed a completely different injury.

As best as could be determined, Abdullah is not one of the more than 4,000 players involved in lawsuits against the NFL over concussions and other injuries, or in the $765 million settlement reached this summer but not yet officially approved. In his Twitter outburst, he said that he and his family are “financially GOOD,’’ but adds that the majority of players who end up bankrupt or divorced within five years of the end of their careers are not to blame for their plights.

“It's not poor choices by the player, it's the ... NFL loading the gun, and us pulling the trigger,’’ he said.